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Sourceforge
SCons 0.10 is now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244414
SCons alpha release 0.10 is now available for download. SCons is a
software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make)
implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software
Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build
tool). IMPORTANT: Release 0.10 contains the following interface
changes: - The meaning of the third argument passed to user-defined
Scanner functions has changed. It was formerly the target node being
built, and is now a list of directories (a path) which may be searched
for files found during the scan. - The .sconsign files are no longer
ASCII text, they are now a pickled (binary) Python data structure. This
release adds the following features: - SCons now prints a description
of Python functions being executed as actions to update a target. -
Scanners now support a "recursive" attribute that specifies the Scanner
will be re-applied to files found during the scan. - A new Clean()
method supports removing user-specified files when using the -c option.
- New SetJobs() and GetJobs() method support setting or fetching the
default number of jobs. - The MinGW tool chain is now supported. - A
new --debug=includes option has been added. The following fixes have
been added: - SCons now symlinks or copies files from Repositories on
different file systems, when hard links won't work. - The Install()
method prints something when the -n option is used. - When the -n
option is used, SCons no longer creates duplicate source files in a
BuildDir(). - The Program() Builder (and other multiple-step Builders)
now work properly when only the source file is specified. - A bug when
building a file whose basename matched the directory in which it lived
has been fixed. - The -c options will now properly remove symlinks. -
The Environment.get() now returns None by default. - Error messages now
all start with "scons: ***". - Warning messages now all start with
"scons: warning:". Performance has been improved as follows: - Scanners
are now called once and only once per file. - Internal checks for
whether a file has a Builder have been significantly sped up. -
Unnecessary internal imports have been removed. The following changes
have been made to the SCons packaging: - The scons-local packages no
longer contain Python bytecode (*.pyc) files. The documentation has
been improved: - The initial explanation of SConscript files has been
improved. - A misformatted table in the StaticObject description has
been fixed. - New features have been documented.
lifelines internationalized
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244180
LifeLines is a genealogy program to help with your family history
research. Its primarily strengths are its powerful scripting language
and the ability easily import and export information in the GEDCOM
format. Recent copies of lifelines now include Danish, French, German,
and Swedish message catalogs.
Millstone 3.0.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244080
Millstone is a library for creating server side user interfaces for
networked Java applications. It provides easiness and modularity of
component based user interface development to Internet application
development as well as terminal independency. This version is service
release for the Millstone Base 3.0 and the Millstone WebAdapter 3.0
modules. This version includes fixes to both base and web-adapter
modules, and it also adds some previously unimplemented features to the
default theme.
JGAP 0.32 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244075
JGAP is a genetic algorithms package written in Java. It is designed to
require minimum effort to use "out of the box," but is also designed to
be highly modular to allow for custom components to be easily plugged
in by the more adventurous. JGAP 0.32 is a maintenance release that
primarily includes optimizations to increase performance and reduce
memory consumption. Minor enhancements and fixes, as well as additions
to the documentation, are also included. Please see the Changelog for
details. JGAP 0.32 is considered an alpha release and is therefore not
feature-complete and may contain bugs.
EasySok 0.3.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244037
EasySok is a sokoban game for KDE. It is themeable, has a level editor
and a solver, various import/export functions, a retro mode and other
nice features. This is just a bugfix release for users of gcc 3.2. If
you could compile EasySok 0.3.1, there is no need to switch to this new
version.
KRadio 0.2.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244060
KRadio is a radio application for KDE3. It has support for video4linux
radio devices and lirc remote control. Changes in this release include:
the configuration dialog is now in KDE style; a configurable "good
signal" level has been added; and numerous bugs have been fixed. And
many fixes that can be read in the
http://www.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de/~witte/kradio/ChangeLog kradio can be
downloaded as usual from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45668 or from
http://www.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de/~witte/kradio.html And don't forget to
contribute your station preset file to our database ;) Have fun! Martin
drjava-20030115-2237 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244050
This development release includes a new approach for the communication
between the main DrJava JVM and the JVM used by the Interactions Pane.
It should resolve many of the Interactions Pane problems that users
have recently encountered, and it needs to be tested on all platforms.
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports
interactive evaluation of expressions. Download it by following the
"more download options" link on our home page.
TurboPower Orpheus 4.06 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244023
Orpheus is an award-winning UI toolkit for Borland Delphi and
C++Builder. It contains over 120 components covering everything from
data entry to calendars and clocks. Other noteworthy components include
an Object Inspector, LookOut bar, & report views. This is a source-code
only release. TurboPower Orpheus project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tporpheus
MPman MP-F70 suite 0.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243804
Version 0.3 of the kernel driver and utilities for the MPman MP-F70
portable MP3 player is up for download. The kernel driver provides a
block device which you can then mount in read-write mode. The
mpf70-utils allow you to extract MP3 information and queue tracks to
the player in one command! http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpf70/
Chicken of the VNC 1.3.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243785
Chicken of the VNC is a VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows
one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other
words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote
computer as though it's right next to you. This release contains
enhancements, including new encoding support, support for wheel mice,
and performance improvements.
Slashdot
Neverwinter Nights Update
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0456234
nyquil superstar writes "Just thought everyone might like to know,
there are a whole bunch of updates at [0] Bioware's NWN Linux Client
Page. Includes goodies like the timing of future releases and betas,
how to install the Linux client and future(!) expansions, and updates
on the movies and sound issues. The quick version: sound is in and they
will release a Linux client before they integrate a movie player. Oh,
and you'll need to download the game's resource data or use a Windows
install, the CD is only good for the reg. key and Windows install. Good
news though, because it sounds like it's getting close."
Links
0. http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
Newsbooster Creates P2P Newsbrowser
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0455242
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]Newsbooster, the Danish company that [2]got
busted for deep-linking to newspaper stories, [3]has created a new P2P
version of its service to get around European law. Newsbooster's
"[4]Newsbrowser" software works like Kazaa - users download the
software and it networks their computers together, instead of serving
up files from a single server."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus author
1. http://www.newsbooster.com/
2. http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/07/05/newsbarred.html
3. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57230,00.html
4. http://www.newsbooster.com/?lan=dk
Bushfires Destroy Historic Mt. Stromlo Observatory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0327242
[0]Anthony writes "The historic [1]Mt Stromlo observatory has been
destroyed by fires. Unfortunately [2]Google cache and similar archives
are the only available detailed information. Looks like the web site
was housed at the observatory. [3]Telescopes housed there were 74" and
50" reflectors along with the "Oddie" 9" refractor used by the Canberra
Astronomical Society. Also destroyed were a number of student houses
and workshops. The view from the air is one of molten domes and twisted
metal. with the "Oddie" 9" refractor used by the Canberra Astronomical
Society. Also destroyed were a number of student houses and workshops.
These [4]fires have already destroyed 388 houses in the suburbs of
Canberra. Luckily the winds have not picked up today, but the danger is
still high."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.anu.edu.au/pad/50th/history/mssso.html
2.
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:u0lXmkqhHKcC:msowww.anu.edu.au/+anu+stromlo&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
3. http://web.archive.org/web/20011125000347/msowww.anu.edu.au/observing/
4. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003/01/item20030119054139_1.htm
MIT Spam Conference Conclusions
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0255228
[0]RT Alec writes "The [1]2003 Spam Conference has concluded,
[2]reports [3]InfoWorld. (related read: [4]abstracts of the conference
discussions). I was unable to attend the conference, but it appears all
that was discussed was filters (client and server). I think the key
problem is ISPs that do not block egress traffic on port 25. If you
need to send mail through a different SMTP server than provided by your
ISP, the admin of that server ought to provide you with a means of
using it with authentication on a port other than 25 (you do have
permission to use that SMTP server, don't you?). It is not too tough to
set up an SMTP server to require authentication, or at a minimum to run
off a different port. I am suprised that this is never mentioned as a
cure for spam. If just AOL blocked port 25, this could reduce spam by
50% (I base this figure on close examination of the headers of the spam
I receive). I was pleased to see that Barry Shein, president of [5]The
World (a Boston based ISP) was included in the talks. I am not sure by
the abstract (see link above) posted if he mentioned blocking port 25.
In a recent [6]interview he did not mention it."
Links
0. http://www.restontech.com/
1. http://spamconference.org/
2. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/17/030117hnspammit.xml?s=IDGNS
3. http://www.infoworld.com/
4. http://spamconference.org/abstracts.txt
5. http://www.std.com/
6. http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20021219S0003
Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0246211
[0]scrm writes "The next version of Windows should be built on top of
Linux, according to [1]this article by [2]Robert Cringely of PBS." If
Microsoft wanted to, they could be the world's largest vendor of Free
software .. couldn't they?
Links
0. http://www.scandal.org
1. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030116.html
2. http://www.pbs.org/cringely
A Community Takeover of Mandrake?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2219215
sombragris writes "[0]Ben Reser wrote an [1]interesting opinion about
MandrakeSoft's [2]current financial woes. Reser maintains that there's
no great value in MandrakeSoft's current business model and that the
best course of action for Mandrake Linux would be a community or
non-profit takeover of the Mandrake distribution. Sounds definitely
interesting..."
Links
0. http://ben.reser.org/
1. http://ben.reser.org/rants/invisible.cgi?month=01&day=15&year=2003&t=00
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1727240&tid=147
Electromagnetic Ship Docking System Debuts
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2014230
Makarand writes "A system that uses electromagnets for docking ships is
getting ready to be tested at a port in the Netherlands according to
this [0]article in the New Scientist. Magnetic docking systems were
never used in the past as magnetic fields posed dangers to sensitive
cargo like TVs and monitors. Researchers at the Delft University of
Technology have developed electromagnets whose magnetic fields do not
penetrate far into the ship for this special application. The magnets
can be periodically switched off and on rapidly to allow ships to rise
and fall with the tide."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993270
Lindows' Heavy Hand Leads to Summit Dropouts
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2011207
[0]shawk writes "With Lindows becoming more popular the company's
confidence seems to be growing. According to a [1]news item on
Desktoplinux.com Lindows unilaterally adjusted the agenda of a planned
vendor-neutral summit in a way that is not tolerable for others
supporting the conference. A related [2]article on CNET reports HP
having withdrawn from the summit as well."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4417146902.html
2. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-981257.html?tag=fd_top
Rosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2116255
iconian writes "Hillary Rosen of RIAA wants to impose a type of [0]fee
to ISPs which in turn will be passed to all their customers
indiscriminately to recoup supposed damages done by file-sharing. The
RIAA considers downloading music illegally over the Internet to be the
moral equivalence of stealing. I wonder then what is the moral
equivalence of the RIAA taking realized cash from people who do not
download music?"
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=3&cid=582&u=/nm/20030118/wr_nm/tech_internet_music_dc
Web Site Sues Annoying Pest Troll
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/169202
[0]kongjie writes "Cleveland's [1] The Plain Dealer has a [2]story in
the business section about a [3]pest-control web site that is suing
someone who obviously has a particular bone to pick with exterminators:
he is accused of being a "troll" who "constantly leaving obnoxious and
offensive messages" on their pest-control bulletin board. The suit is
for $5,000 and is for "violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act.""
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/
2.
http://www.cleveland.com/tech/plaindealer/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fbusiness%2F104288693631280.xml
3. http://www.pctonline.com/
Freshmeat
Lightweight Web Browsers
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/695
The computers you meet on today's desktops are equipped with very fast
processors (usually over 1GHz) and a few hundreds megs of RAM. Even
very complicated and resource-consuming applications don't cause any
problems for them. However, there are still old machines around which
can't easily run such programs. They either don't launch them at all or
run so slowly that sensible work can't be performed.
adcfw-log 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109946/
adcfw-log is a tool for analyzing firewall logs in order to extract
meaningful information. It is designed to be a standalone script with
very few requirements that can generate different kinds of reports,
such as fully formatted reports of what had been logged, with summaries
by source or destination host, the type of service, or protocol. There
are also options to filter the input data by date, host, protocol,
service, and so on.
ALE 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109934/
ALE aligns and merges several similar images from a digitizing device
(such as a digital camera or scanner) into a single image. This may
have the effect of producing a relatively alias-free image (sometimes
called "anti-aliasing").
AllTasks.net 1.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109947/
AllTasks.net allows a company to manage all parts of a task from idea
to execution and evaluation. Work together on big projects and/or
gather daily tasks into one common system.
Aware 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109955/
Aware is a high performance distributed event processing framework
built for systems management. It comes with probes for common network
services and system resources. Additionally, Aware allows the
cross-correllation of many different streams of information, and
includes a Web-based reporting interface.
b0xNet 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109924/
b0xNet is an advanced modular Eggdrop distribution with multi-lingual
support. It will run on Unix and Linux operating systems but may be
limited to x86 compatible architectures. It includes an automatic
upgrade feature to keep your bot up to date.
bash programmable completion 20030118 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109921/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend
its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with
just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to
complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3
str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the
UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported
file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would
complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to
produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX
commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need
to do on a daily basis.
Caramel Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109943/
Caramel is a collection of open-source Java utility classes and
includes class utility methods, color utility methods and constants
that let you use more than a hundred predefined colors by name (such as
azure, chocolate, deepskyblue, indigo, etc.), data utility methods to
get a timestamp in a RFC-1123 format, file utility methods to get file
extensions or to save a stream to a file, MIME utility methods, net
utility methods, string utility methods to fill in templates, and much
more.
CvsKnit 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109958/
CvsKnit allows knitting up a CVS Repository from existing source
packages with their original release dates. If you have non-CVS-managed
packages and want to start revision management with CVS, this maybe
useful.
Danpei 2.9.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109916/
Danpei is a GTK+ based image viewer. It allows you to browse through
your image files in thumbnail form, and it can rename, cut, and paste
them easily with an interface similar to that of Windows Explorer.
Defcon4 5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109903/
defcon4 is a good starting-point firewall script to use with ipchains.
It is well documented and tweakable to the user's needs.
Drivel 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109908/
Drivel is a LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop. It's designed to
utilize the new features of GNOME 2.0, including GConf, GnomeVFS, and
GTK 2.0.
Dropline GNOME 2.1.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109909/
Dropline GNOME is a version of the GNOME Desktop that has been tweaked
for Slackware Linux systems. It is available in Slackware's standard
.tgz package format, in addition to the usual source code. The current
release is based off of the latest GNOME 2 distribution from the GNOME
Project.
FLAT Assembler 1.44 beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109904/
The flat assembler is a fast and efficient self-assembling 80x86
assembler for DOS, Windows and Linux. It supports all
8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow!
extensions. It can produce output in binary, MZ, PE or COFF format. It
has advanced but easy-to-use macroinstruction support, and it does
multiple quick passes to optimize the code for size.
FLP 1.031b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109936/
FLP (Flaimo's Little Package) is a collection of PHP classes for
internationalization. It formats date and time strings, replaces
keywords, converts measurement units between SI and the US Customary
System, and more.
fsdb 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109938/
fsdb speeds the creation of slocate's database files by keeping its own
database and updating only those parts that need to be updated. It
connects to a daemon to receive the updated inodes. In turn, the daemon
interfaces with a kernel module which hooks into Linux's dnotify
mechanism.
Genmenu 1.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109933/
Genmenu can generate menus for Blackbox, Fluxbox, Openbox, Window
Maker, and Enlightenment based on the program binaries found installed
on a system. The list of programs to search for are contained within
the script. Users can, to a limited degree, customize their menus via a
set of interactive questions.
GOBLIN Graph Library 2.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109961/
The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large series
of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk
scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user
interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but
provides only basic graph layout methods.
Graver's Football Squares 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109911/
Graver's Football Squares was created so multiple people could enjoy
Football Squares during the Superbowl or any other major game that may
be going on.
gtkVUMeter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109913/
gtkVUMeter is a VU Meter for gtk+. It provides a simple one-channel
audio meter. The minimum and maximum levels are configurable and
default to 32767 (which is correct for 16 bit signed wave files). An
xmms plugin is available.
Horde Application Framework 2.2 (Stable 2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109949/
The Horde Application framework is a set of PHP classes providing
common ways to handle preferences, browser detection, authentication,
help systems, MIME, connection tracking, cross-application
communication, and more.
Impact 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109935/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping
algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car
crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is
kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and
extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and
output formats.
Interface WM 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109861/
The Interface Window Manager uses Objective C and the GNUstep libraries
to provide strictly minimal functionality, with all additional features
in bundles called IWMComponents. It uses the GNUstep defaults database
for user settings such as mouse button configuration, key bindings, and
initial color settings, and is optimized for use in a strictly GNUstep
environment.
Java-Chess 2002-01-17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109926/
Java-Chess is a fully-featured chess program that uses using Java 1.2
(including Swing) and 64-bit computing where possible.
Katoob 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109937/
Katoob is a light-weight, multi lingual, BIDI-aware text editor. It
supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main
support was for the Arabic language but other languages are also
supported.
kbox 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109915/
kbox allows users of KDE/kwin to use styles that are compatible with
the popular Blackbox window manager. It is implemented as a kwin
client/plugin and renders most Blackbox styles correctly. It also
supports Fluxbox and Openbox styles.
KZoomer 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109941/
The KZoomer class can automatically resize components which are
absolutely placed in a container when the size of a container has been
changed.
Last One 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109966/
Last One is a multi-player version of the Crazy Eights card game
(similar to Uno) for Palm OS. Dozens of game variations (including the
one that this game is named after) are possible through a unique game
options system.
libchipcard 0.7.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109906/
Libchipcard is a C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards
via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by
the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip
cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and has been tested
with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel.
Linux NTFS 1.7.0beta (NTFS Tools and Library)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109948/
Linux NTFS provides Linux drivers for the proprietary filesystem used
by Windows NT, 2000, and XP. It also provides support for the Logical
Disk Manager (LDM) that controls Windows' Dynamic Disks and is used to
create software Mirrors, Stripes, RAID, etc.
Makin' Bakon Typing Tutor 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109914/
Makin' Bakon Typing Tutor is a terminal-based typing tutor game written
in C++ (with STL) and Curses. It contains both structured and
fortune-based lessons. Learn to type to a professional standard while
you're saving Pig's bacon! Warning: Includes material that may offend.
Mnemo 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109951/
Mnemo is the Horde notes/memos application. It provides Web-based notes
and freeform text, similar to the PalmOS Note application. It requires
the Horde Application Framework and an SQL database for backend
storage.
mtftpd 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109963/
mtftpd is an FTP server, based in a multiple process/thread model.
Naamah 1.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109952/
Naamah is a Web application that stores the ID3 tags from your MP3s and
details of your audio CDs in a MySQL database. It scans drives for MP3
files and can generate LaTeX listings.
Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109887/
The Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME is an application development
environment that can be used as a stand alone tool or with Borland or
Sun IDE products to build J2ME applications. It features integrated
deployment to FTP servers and an audio converter for MIDI and XML
tones. It contains the Nokia Series 40 MIDP Concept SDK with the
according MIDP APIs, classes, documentation, and sample applications to
build, debug, and run J2ME applications in a simulated environment. It
is designed for Red Hat Linux 7.2.
Open Volume Library 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109964/
The OpenVL library is a framework for working with 3D volumetric
datasets. It provides a standard and uniform API to volumetric data
access, storage, and processing. It is designed and built to be fast,
extensible, flexible, and easy to use. The library is completely
open-sourced and encourages contribution. This library is an ideal
choice if you want to write applications that deal with 3D volumes.
PHP ImageMagick Class 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109929/
PHP ImageMagick Class makes it possible to process images in a very
easy way. It allows you to retrieve image data, flip, dither,
monochrome, negate, rotate, blur, draw frames, resize, square, crop,
convert, and save.
PHP SQLDiff 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109883/
PHP SQLDiff is a Web application that shows the difference between two
SQL database tables.
PhpDocumentor 1.2.0beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109960/
PHPDocumentor is a PHP script for creating javaDoc-style documentation
from PHP code. It can document object-oriented and procedural code. It
supports all javaDoc tags, including inline links, and also supports
PHPdoc documentation in PEAR style.
phpMyAdmin 2.3.3pl1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109922/
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop
databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute
any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and
databases, export/import CSV data and administrate one single database
and multiple MySQL servers.
Piccolo toolkit 1.0 Beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109910/
The Piccolo toolkit is a revolutionary way to create robust,
full-featured graphical applications in Java, with features such as
zooming and multiple representation. It is based on the Java2D API.
Pro-Active Webfilter 0.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109939/
PAW (pro-active Web filter) is a filtering HTTP proxy based on the
Brazil Framework. Because the Brazil Framework and PAW are written in
Java, the software is highly portable. PAW allows for easy plugin of
Handlers (to filter outgoing requests) and Filters (to filter incoming
data), and a GUI for end users. All the configuration files are in XML,
and thus easy to modify (even without the GUI). It's aim is to provide
an easy to use interface for end users and to be easily extendable by
developers.
randcd 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109954/
RandCD is used to make a CD-ROM filled randomly from a much larger MP3
collection. The intent is to reduce the effort of making CDs for MP3 CD
players.
reaim-voice 0.6cvs
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109869/
ReAIM-Voice proxies the MSN voice chat sessions supported by the MSN
messenger client. ReAIM is a compact transparent proxy designed to be
run on or behind a Linux IPTables-based firewall. When run behind a
simple address-translating firewall, the current AIM client software
does not allow direct connections between users to work. AIM requires
direct connections for file and image transfers.
Renaissance 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109923/
GNUstep Renaissance allows you to describe your user interfaces (that
is, the windows in your application and the buttons, boxes, text
fields, etc. in the windows) in simple and intuitive XML files, using
an open, standard format describing the logic of the interface.
Retro Native Forth Release 5 (Draft #1) (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109942/
RetroForth is a 32-bit Forth-based operating system for the IA-32 (x86)
architecture. It is written in assembly language and high-level Forth.
ripperX 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109945/
RipperX is a pretty GTK program to rip CD audio and encode MP3s. It can
rip and encode in parallel and has plugins for cdparanoia, BladeEnc,
Lame, GoGo, FHG (l3enc and mp3enc), XingMp3enc, 8hz-mp3, and the ISO
encoder. It also has support for CDDB (including HTTP proxy servers)
and ID3 tags. Preliminary support for Ogg Vorbis is available, but
tagging doesn't work. The goal of ripperX is to be the easiest and
best-looking frontend for creating MP3s on Linux.
RoboRally Board Editor 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109920/
RoboRally Board editor is a Java utility for creating boards for the
board game, RoboRally. It has a simple graphical interface where you
choose an element of a game and place it on the board where you like
it, much like an ordinary drawing program. When elements are in place
you can remove, rotate, and edit them as you see fit. When you feel
done you can export your board as a JPEG and print it with your
favorite printing tool. The current version supports all the features
of the standard RoboRally game.
Ruby/Google 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109919/
Ruby/Google offers a higher-level abstraction of Google's SOAP-driven
Web API. It allows the user to programatically query the Google search
engine from Ruby. The aim of the library is to shield the programmer
from the details of the raw data structures returned by the Web API,
and in the process make the API more accessible for everyday use.
Sandwish for Metacity 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109927/
Sandwish for Metacity is a port of the Sawfish theme.
SANE 1.0.10-pre2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109968/
SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an
application programming interface (API) that provides standardized
access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, handheld
scanner, video and still cameras, framegrabbers, etc.). The SANE
standard is public domain and its discussion and development are open
to everybody. The source code is written for UNIX (including Linux) and
is available under the GPL, but commercial applications and backends
are welcome. The package contains the libraries, net support, and
scanimage. The X frontends xscanimage and xcam can be found in
sane-frontends.
SANE Frontends 1.0.10-pre2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109969/
This package contains frontends to SANE ("Scanner Access Now
Easy"), including xscanimage, xcam, and scanadf. Xscanimage is a
GTK-based application for scanning images that can also be used as a
GIMP-plugin. Xcam is used to get images from cameras supported by SANE.
Scanadf is a command line frontend especially suited for scanners
equipped with automatic document feeders (ADF).
SMATCH 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109953/
SMATCH is an experiment in finding Linux kernel errors. There are two
main parts to Smatch. The first is a patch to the gcc sources to print
out a lot of information. The second part is a collection of Perl
scripts and libraries to analyze the information.
SMS Server Tools 1.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109930/
The SMS Server Tools were made to send and receive SMS from one or many
GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts
to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The
daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them.
It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call
any external program for incoming or outgoing notification.
Snak 4.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109918/
Snak is a full-featured IRC client for Mac. It features a configurable
window view, an inbuilt address book, logging functions, multiple
connections and multiple channels per connection, a find function for
text within channel listings and channel text, as well as scripting
capability, amongst others.
SNARLsnmp 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109965/
SNARLsnmp is a monitoring tool for dynamic Web applications. It
dynamically creates and assembles URLs and scans them at arbitrary
intervals, performs predefined checks on URL content, size, and timing,
notifies a monitoring application via informative SNMP traps if a
predefined error condition (event) has been met, and delivers a
snapshot of its current tests and results at any given time. It is
built as a truly multi-threaded MIB module for net-snmp 5.0.3 and
higher. Its current monitoring status can be retrieved via the net-snmp
daemon's SNMP request interface. configuration of the URL tests is done
via a configuration file in a human readable format. All configurations
can be hot updated. No data will be lost when reconfiguring a running
SNARLsnmp.
Sweep 0.8.0, Milestone 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109932/
Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports many music
and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, and MP3, with
multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky
little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your
files.
Terminal.app 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109925/
Terminal.app is a terminal emulator for GNUstep.
The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO 2003-01-08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109931/
The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO describes how to write parasitic file
viruses which infect ELF executables on Linux/i386. Though it contains
a lot of source code, no actual virus is included. Every mentioned
infection method is accompanied with a practical guide to detection.
Timer_q 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109891/
Timer_q is a shared C library which implements multiple queues of timed
events. This is commonly needed, but often implemented badly (via.
alarm()). The library also aims to be fast, small, and easy to use.
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator 0.80-pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109905/
UADE (Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator) plays old Amiga music formats by
UAE Amiga emulation. It supports at least 150 different formats.
vtwatch 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109917/
vtwatch automatically switches the active virtual console on your Linux
system in a loop, acting as a virtual terminal surveillance monitor.
The speed at which they switch is configurable, and it is possible to
input a search string, which you are notified about if it is found on a
console.
Web Performance Trainer 2.5 Build 414
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109959/
Web Performance Trainer is a load, stress, and performance testing tool
for Web servers. It simulates thousands of individual users hitting a
server at connection speeds between 14.4Kb/s and LAN speeds. It
supports URL rewriting, dynamic form data, multiple servers, and
unusual port numbers. Statistics are collected at multiple levels, from
the transaction down to the individual HTTP request. Users can view,
edit, or dynamically replace hidden data such as the HTTP request and
reply headers. It runs on Linux, Solaris, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP.
WePaSe 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109944/
WePaSe is a full-text Web indexing and search engine, designed to be
used to index/search small and medium sites. Its features include word,
phrase, and meta-data searching (including combinations of these),
support for many character encodings (data is stored in Unicode
internally), parsers for plain text, HTML, and PDF, a multi-threaded
crawler, and Web administration. It was designed to be easy to use with
data sources other than HTTP (such as news archives) or other file
formats.
Worm Warner 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109928/
WormWarner is a Perl script that is used to warn hosts that are
probably infected by a worm. It decides wether a host is infected by
analyzing the data from the Apache log files. It currently recognizes
CodeRed, Nimda, the Linux.Slapper.Worm, and the FreeBSD.Scalper.worm.
Warning is done by trying to contact the SMTP server on the infected
host and sending an email to the postmaster.
Yet another nV Configurator 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109940/
YanC (Yet another nV Configurator) is a small tool which you can use to
change the nVidia-specific settings (almost) as easily as with the
Windows drivers. You can edit the settings for the AGP-Support, the
Cursor Shadow, the nVidia-Logo, for Digital Vibrance Control and, of
course, TwinView. Furthermore, YanC offers the possibility to run your
OpenGL applications (e.g., games) with your favourite settings for
antialiasing, anisotropic texture filtering, and vsync to blank without
difficult commandline operations.
Slashcode
Are there ways to integrate Drupal based sites int
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2342231
Is slash and drupal close enough in architecture so that they can pull
stories from each other or comingle successfully? I've enclosed the URL
and for anyone who doesn't know what it can do. It can be seen at
http://www.debianplanet.org/ The main page for Drupal is
http://www.drupal.org/
Karma Bonus
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/0015227
Slash used to allow users with good karma to have a +1 assigned to new
comments they were creating (so it would increment the value of comment
at creation). The way this is done was changed recently (like say on
Wednesday). What happens now is that the comment is logged with a value
of "yes" for karma_bonus. A user can adjust the value for what this
bonus means (by default it is +1). When you look on you own page you
see the raw score, which is 1. We have been getting rid of the +1/-1
and such type bonuses and going to a system where the user can decide
what they want to apply for a bonus.
Debian package for Slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/173223
I just installed the Debian package for Slash, and for the most part
everything just worked after the "apt-get install slash". There were a
few misplaced Perl modules, but that was fairly easily fixed. I am
still getting some errors though, and I was wondering if anyone could
make sense of these. I also have a problem where the Messages user
options page doesn't display any of the dropdowns, or any other options
for the user. It will just display the text about the page, and the
command button. http://www.parkmoor.dyndns.org/ is the address in case
any of my descriptions are unclear. Thanks for any help. Here's the
/var/log/slash/[sitename]/[sitename]_error.log output when I try to
load http://www.parkmoor.dyndns.org/messages.pl: [Fri Jan 17 03:58:53
2003] [error] /messages.pl:Apache::ROOTwww_2eparkmoor_2edyndns_2
eorg::messages_2epl:/var/www/slash/www.parkmoor.dy
ndns.org/htdocs/messag es.pl:22:Class Slash::Messages is not working
properly. Try `perl -MSlash::Messages -le 'Slash::Messages->new'` to
see why. [Fri Jan 17 03:58:53 2003] [error] Which was called
by:Apache::ROOTwww_2eparkmoor_2edyndns_2eorg::mess
ages_2epl:/var/www/slash/www.parkmoor.dyndns.org/h tdocs
/messages.pl:163:Class Slash::Messages is not working properly. Try
`perl -MSlash::Messages -le 'Slash::Messages->new'` to see why. [Fri
Jan 17 03:58:53 2003] [error] Can't call method "getDescriptions" on an
undefined value at /var/www/slash/www.parkmoor.dyndns.org/htdocs/mess
ages.pl line 101.
Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/1659252
O'Reilly's got a multi-part article series online about improving
mod_perl's performance. Since Slash is, uh, slightly, tied to mod_perl,
this may be some good reading for some of you. Here are links to the
parts: Part 1 The Big Picture Part 2 Essential Tools Part 3 Code
Profiling Techniques Part 4 Memory Part 5 More Memory
The Strict Slash theme
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/033226
Like I wrote in "Upcoming XHTML/Accessibility Slash theme" I'm working
on a slash theme with the goal of complying with the W3C's Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. It's far from complete, but I think that
it has reached a point where I want to hear comments from others and
see if someone is interesting in contributing patches to fix bugs /
implement new features. It requires latest slash cvs and it's available
from anonymous read-only cvs: cvs -d
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/c vs loginNo password,
just press Enter. cvs -d
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/c vs co strict It's
hosted by Openflows, who has been supporting the development of this
theme. You vill find a List of changes and a Todo list on the demo site
strict.openflows.org And if you are looking for something interesting
to read on the same topic, Joe Clark's Answers -- In Valid XHTML.
How does index.shtml pick up currentqid for polls?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/2254228
In the process of upgrading from R_2_3_0_46 to the current snapshot of
Slash, my poll appears to have died. No matter what currentqid gets set
to, or how many polls I delete or add, poll qid 6 (which now doesn't
exist) is always the poll that gets written to index.shtml. Also, when
I go to a poll that *does* exist
(http://www.scylla.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1), none of the questions are
listed, just the title. To make sure I have a clean slate, I have
created a whole new /usr/local/slash/site directory, dumped and
recreated the auto_poll, pollanswers, pollquestions, and pollvoters
tables, and reinstalled slash. The only thing that's the same is
database and the directory that slash was installed to. So, my question
is how does index.shtml get the value it's suppossed to use? I looked
in index.pl and it appears to use pollbooth('_currentqid', 1) to write
the value. And, of course, I need to hunt down the function that lists
the poll questions in pollbooth.pl (to find out why they aren't
displayed on vote windows). I've spent a lot of time trying to hunt
down functions in .pm files but now I'm giving up and hoping I can find
someone who "just knows". So, anyone just know or have someplace I can
go for detailed specs on the poll plugin?
Upgrading apache without messing up slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/2011240
I need to upgrade my apache server for security reasons, but I am
worried that I will mess up my slash site in doing so. How do I go
about updating my website to the latest version of apache without
messing up slash? Is the a document on this somewhere? I have apache
1.3.22 and I want to get 1.3.27. Thanks. Also, how do I tell what
version of slash I am currently running? --John
What version of slash is running on /. ?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1824231
Well, that's all I am asking... Krow: Look for the latest tag in CVS
for slash, that is what slashdot is using.
Enable comment counter?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1822241
I'm reading the online docs and also bought the 'Running Weblogs with
Slash' book - somehow I can't figure this out? How do I enable that
counter (e.g. 40 of 51 comments)
Galleria photo gallery plugin beta released
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1819259
We've released our first beta of a photo gallery plugin for Slash. It's
called Galleria. Features include file-upload via http, a slide show,
etc. All under the GPL. For more inforation see
http://www.lottadot.com/
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